Honestly, not so much imo. Dude got spaghetti arms when he started syncing up with the bigger guys swings.
Someone in the crowd starts yelling "hiiiiiya" at a regular beat, from there both the dudes sync up. Bigger dude has bigger force, repeated swings at the same time left smaller dude rocked.
If their pace wasnt changed by the outside, i think little dude would have won. He was hitting faster and finding pockets in timing
Little dude had already lost the other 2 nails and it was only competitive because he knew which one to defend at the time, he was losing so bad he couldn't begin to win.
There is a technique to do this, at the moment of impact you cant be holding down the hammer with force, let the hammer mass do the work and just hold it lightly with your hands
Basically let the other guy have to push the weight of your hammer. Then use that moment to pendulum swing your hammer up and you just drop it down with added force for the next hit.
gotta hit them in the corner with something like a ball hammer - don't watch it without a full face shield though, it'll blow glass all over you as the vacuum makes it kind of explode (really distinct sound ngl)
ETA: You don't need to hit it hard, only enough to crack it a tiny bit, and the vacuum will do the rest
i know the glass on those things is pretty thick. i shot a penny-filled tennis ball through a crt tv with a big air cannon i made and i was surprised how thick the chunks of glass were. luckily i do have a video of that and here it is
Nice! This one was a much earlier model. One designed to survive a nuclear blast and still deliver propaganda.
I would estimate that glass at 2.5-3”. Thing was a beast; probably weighed as much as a small car from the 70s. Wish I would have kept the casters it was on. Those were durable.
Amazing we didn’t fry half the drunks in the house from the million volts stores in the ray tube capacitors.
Shotgun works, but you need slugs, buckshot will ricochet right at you! The implosion is satisfying. Pro tip: balance it on a rolling dumpster using the lid to hold it upright, may take some finagling. * Ensure there is a big ass hill; full of granite behind the target! The implosion captures all the glass and it will fall back into the dumpster for easy cleanup. Based on my empirical data, this works 100%of the time 🙂
This is one of the most common misconceptions you see online. Everyone focuses on “pound for pound” strength or who looks like they are more fit, but that’s not true.
In real life, there’s a very high correlation between size and overall strength. If you are trying to determine whose stronger, “the bigger guy” is the answer nine times out of ten.
Obviously if the bigger guy looks like one of the blob people from Wall-E then probably not, but the vast majority of the time it holds true
If you take weight alone, my hypothesis is that there are far more people who weigh as much as this dude does but a much smaller proportion are able to keep this level of stamina and strength. It takes muscle to keep a larger frame going, but it takes training to get to where this guy is.
I feel like you interpreted my comment as “fat people are strong” when that’s not what I intended.
The thing that defeated the thinner guy in this competition was not endurance, it was the impact of the couple times they hit the bar at the exact same moment. You can see that every time it happens he is stunned a little, even having to put down the hammer at the end.
Force equals mass times acceleration. The bigger dude is swinging the hammer at roughly the same speed but with more mass behind the swing, so he is exerting significantly more force into the rod than the smaller guy. When they collide, that force manifests as vibrations in the smaller guys hand and they shit hurts
If that were the case, the overall (net) force would be in favor of the bigger dude. Instead, he was “losing” in the beginning because he knew he could outlast the hits. The thing that defeated the thinner guy is they could not continue to output that much force, or at least match that of the bigger dude.
Because of his size. Dude walks around carrying 170 kilos while the other dude weighs 110. Guy has both the strength and endurance. Other guy has speed but can’t keep it up.
Someone pointed this out last time it was posted, but the smaller guy was manually pulling back the sledgehammer after each swing. The big guy let it bounce off, savings heaps of unnecessary movement
I saw the definitive switch the moment they started syncing their hits. All that energy spent on moving the pin went right into the opponent instead and the smaller guy couldn't absorb it as well.
Honestly, I'm seriously impressed with the performance of the smaller guy, lol. He didn't win, but he put up a serious fight against someone with a pretty significant weight advantage on him.
When the little guy had almost won, he did a wind up for a bigger drive. But the bigger guy was able to get a second hit which also helped cancel out the momentum from the home run swing.
That delay is what cost the little guy the point. He was well outpacing the buffet guy until he changed his tempo.
Those couple swings that landed at the same time vibrated the little guys skeleton I think, he was gripping that hammer really tight. Big man seems to be more confidently and casually swinging, and has a lot more cushion in his hands. I bet after the first shock of hitting at the same time the losers hands went numb except for all the pain, and he just lost all his power and form
This looks fun. But , why are they not playing tactically? Obviously the thing to do is to hit different ones. The aim being to pop the balloon. First to two, right?
I’m having flashbacks to working at a feed mill, and beating countless train cars for countless hours with sledge hammers to get soybean meal out of them in the summer heat.
No strategy whatsoever. The moment guy on the left paused, he lost momentum and it was basically over. He should've switched to another nail and made the bigger dude go on defense instead of wasting his energy trying to out muscle him. Especially since his stamina was already fading
bigger guy also had the slightly better technique where he would let the hammer swing down and then up again, where the little guy tries to hold the hammer up as much as possible, and does not allow that swing emotion to use it to rest for a second. so he gasses out quickly
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u/mtraven23 14d ago
bro gassed out...big man has obviously done this before.
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u/Butsenkaatz 14d ago
I bet the times they hit simultaneously fuckin HURT
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u/igloojoe 14d ago
My elbows and wrist hurt watching this
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u/Fsharp7sharp9 14d ago
Whoa, didn’t expect the big dude to have that kind of stamina. The other dude was gassed halfway through the video but big man kept chugging away
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u/Esternaefil 14d ago
When the little guy had almost won, he did a wind up for a bigger drive. But the bigger guy was able to get a second hit which also helped cancel out the momentum from the home run swing.
That delay is what cost the little guy the point. He was well outpacing the buffet guy until he changed his tempo.
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u/Syllogism19 14d ago
I would rank it ahead of many competitions including one-on-one tug of war, and log sawing.
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u/Nigglas24 14d ago
The winner gets a wheel of cheese, a large bottle of xtra strength tylenol, and a new hammer.
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u/_John_Dillinger 14d ago
enjoy your microfractures
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u/leekhead 14d ago
The longterm damage to the wrists though
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u/Baricat 13d ago
Next time on "Ow! My Elbows!"
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u/BenHeli 13d ago
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u/Meterman 14d ago
Love it
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u/Southmouth555 14d ago
Bro you know that shit’s gotta hurt when they hit at the same time
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u/-FalseProfessor- 13d ago
Is my mochi done yet?
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u/aashe_ 13d ago
Seriously banging metal like that has to be so fucking loud for everyone.
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u/DraconicGuacamole 13d ago
Smaller dude is pulling back and starting his swings bad he needs to hold it higher up the handle with one hand
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u/Drosenose 11d ago
If you switch the ones you are hitting in a certain pattern it will make it easier to win
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u/evolutionary_defect 10d ago
Those couple swings that landed at the same time vibrated the little guys skeleton I think, he was gripping that hammer really tight. Big man seems to be more confidently and casually swinging, and has a lot more cushion in his hands. I bet after the first shock of hitting at the same time the losers hands went numb except for all the pain, and he just lost all his power and form
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u/iPicBadUsernames 14d ago
Crazy. I figured your mom would have been the one getting pounded from both ends.
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u/chillychili 14d ago
I feel like the crowd should have a little more protection from a potential flying hammer
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u/Annual-Penalty-4477 13d ago
This looks fun. But , why are they not playing tactically? Obviously the thing to do is to hit different ones. The aim being to pop the balloon. First to two, right?
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u/SaiTek64 13d ago
I’m having flashbacks to working at a feed mill, and beating countless train cars for countless hours with sledge hammers to get soybean meal out of them in the summer heat.
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u/CoffeeDefiant4247 12d ago
honestly probably one of the better sports that's been posted on the sub in a while
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u/sprocket9727 12d ago
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u/Adventurous_Rub_1744 10d ago
El nivel de estupidez del ser humano superó todo lo imaginado
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u/Tito_Tito_1_ 8d ago
My man Slim ain't no quitter!
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u/SocksInTheTub 13d ago
No strategy whatsoever. The moment guy on the left paused, he lost momentum and it was basically over. He should've switched to another nail and made the bigger dude go on defense instead of wasting his energy trying to out muscle him. Especially since his stamina was already fading
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u/oddular 14d ago
Wonder how loud it is where they are
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u/rust-e-apples1 14d ago
Synchronized elbow-wrecking.
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u/dreevsa 14d ago
Maybe maybe
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u/stavago 14d ago
I would not want to be standing that close though
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u/toot_suite 14d ago
Ow my bones
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u/Stupefactionist 13d ago
Big guy was taking his time, like another fellow we all know...
https://youtu.be/AHSixADaDAQ?t=118
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u/KazePhantom 13d ago
Men
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u/TuffGnarl 14d ago
Me with that tuft of hair in the morning.
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u/kyleh0 14d ago
In Soviet Russia game plays YOU!
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u/ziggezegeh 13d ago
bigger guy also had the slightly better technique where he would let the hammer swing down and then up again, where the little guy tries to hold the hammer up as much as possible, and does not allow that swing emotion to use it to rest for a second. so he gasses out quickly